The return of Christian social service to the centre of British political Life through the emergence of the foodbank movement has elicited a range of ecclesial responses.
Charles Pemberton draws on interv.
However, in their urgency and brevity these Church responses fail to systematically integrate political critique and social analysis, nor do they undertake a sustained integration of the recent gains in political theology with the realities of our current \'mixed economy of welfare\'.
The return of Christian social service to the centre of British political Life through the emergence of the foodbank movement has elicited a range of ecclesial responses